by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
An unused pair of snorkel hoses might have doomed the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, researchers said, after finding the vital equipment stowed in the ship. Without the connection, the crew couldn’t have lasted more than two hours submerged, until they just ran...
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Here’s what you can expect to see between now and the 2020 elections, which are less than a year away: an endless parade of so-called experts who will strain each day’s political events through their ideological sieves in attempts to give them meaning....
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TENNESSEE: Civil War Markers Detail Black History Public commemoration of Franklin’s past got a little fuller this week, after five markers detailing the city’s African American history were unveiled near its most prominent Confederate statue. More than 200 people...
by editor | Nov 4, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NORTH CAROLINA: Dixie Classic Fair Changes Name WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — After months of debate, city leaders in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, voted to change the name of the annual Dixie Classic Fair to the Carolina Classic Fair. The Dixie Classic Fair just...
by editor | Oct 30, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County is well known for its American Civil War history. The town was the site of John Brown’s Raid, the Battle of Harpers Ferry, and the town changed hands from Union to Confederate several times. Harpers Ferry saw so much destruction during...
by editor | Oct 29, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world’s worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS caliphate who had raped an American woman, had received justice. About to be captured and carried off in a helicopter by U.S. special forces, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...